Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a brain-dead man’s body is functioning well more than 4 weeks later.

UAB President Ray Watts called the achievement an indicator of a possible future with a sustainable supply of organs. For the first time in a human, genetically modified pig kidneys provided ...

Medical pioneer’ has pig kidney removed from his body 271 days after animal-to-human transplant - The first attempts at using ...

A pig kidney has continued to function inside of a human body for roughly two months, the longest documented instance of such a procedure, known as a xenotransplant. Researchers at NYU Langone ...

The human body can survive weeks without food, but only days without water. Yet millions of people walk around in a state of chronic dehydration, completely unaware that their kidneys are slowly ...

A large study in pet dogs has uncovered potential new biomarkers of aging that could one day help both dogs and humans live longer, healthier lives. Scientists have long searched for biological ...

NEW YORK (WPIX) – Surgeons at New York University Langone Health have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a human body, and it continues to function well after more than a month — a ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — Surgeons at NYU Langone ...